Pith Number

pith:DNZ2QOLU

pith:2014:DNZ2QOLUBJ5VLMZT622Y4E2J4J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is the principle of least action a must?

Bibhas Ranjan Majhi, Jacob D. Bekenstein

arxiv:1411.2424 v2 · 2014-11-10 · hep-th · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DNZ2QOLUBJ5VLMZT622Y4E2J4J}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:28:20.409432Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1b73a839740a7b55b333f6b58e1349e24b4475dd10cf6bae65c19a937c823df4

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.2424 · arxiv_version: 1411.2424v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.2424 · pith_short_12: DNZ2QOLUBJ5V · pith_short_16: DNZ2QOLUBJ5VLMZT · pith_short_8: DNZ2QOLU

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DNZ2QOLUBJ5VLMZT622Y4E2J4J \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 1b73a839740a7b55b333f6b58e1349e24b4475dd10cf6bae65c19a937c823df4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c8ccd5a1a3a260836161e34b0927242cca85fa6a2af43c8a03db7a873caeeccb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-10T13:44:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c40e1d4746b30aa75cf0353e985e4d319cd7a7ceacfc1d3b6c9794b47fda7315"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.2424",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}